MY CZECH HOUSE TOUR - Living almost in Prague
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Hello and welcome to my channel! My name is Andrea and I’m so happy you are stopping by here! My husband Jan and I live in Prague, Czech Republic. I work from home so all my videos are Prague-related, traveling, cooking, vlogging and lifestyle! I hope you will stick around and subscribe for more videos like this!!
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btw: in Czech language the clasification is: samota, osada, víska, ves, vesnice, městys, (městečko), město, velkoměsto.
the title of the biggest village goes to Brno ofcourse;)
kibicz mmm then the terminology exists yet nobody uses it 😐
@@ArepasforDinner vesnice / město are the most common and used terms, but the rest is used quite commonly too foo more specitic purposes.
5:21 - I hear my grandma screaming "Take something from that fridge and close that!" :-D
Ondřej Matějka literally 😂😂
Second level, my mom. :-) "Think about what you want, remember where it's in the fridge, open it and quickly grab it." :-) It pressed so hard into me that when I saw the first part of the second series of the Prison Break series, where the villain attacked the girl just as she was taking juice from the fridge and starting to strangle her, while the fridge remained OPEN, the only one on what I could think of was - you bastard, close the fridge!!!
To this day, I can remember my mother standing in front of an old calex (closed) in our cottage, visualizing where the cheese is, then quickly opening it and grab it. So fast that when you winked, you missed it :-) Sometimes she does it now, even we already have a new refrigerator there. :-)
Beautiful house and that garden! Gosh!
I would call downstairs pantry with food and cleaning stuff spíž or špajz, and upstairs pantry with towels etc. probably kumbál. :)
Thank you for the work don’t I will forget spiž but I think I’ll remember kumbál!!
"Obec" is general Czech name for a township. Suburbs is "předměstí" in Czech.
Mmm předměstí. Makes sense!!
love your new home! it's beautiful and the pool/garden look so inviting! i know you and Jan will make lots of great memories there and will enjoy entertaining friends and family!
Thank you!! And yes we are so exited we’ve had people over every weekend!! Has been a blessing!!
You look really happy and that’s good 🙂👍🏼 It’s quite close to the airport, which will be great when your family come to visit. About it being a village - 90% of the neighbourhoods of Prague used to be villages before they became part of Prague, so don’t worry about it. It doesn’t really matter what you call it. And now you have a house to decorate for Christmas 😉
I think we have no porcupines in CZ, I believe you've seen a hedgehog 😊
Mmmmm yeah that one. We call them both the same 😂💜 that was it. Super cute
@@ArepasforDinner I would also beg you to put a plank into to pool so if a hedgehod falls into the water, it can crawl out. The bowl with water aside is a nice contraption, but it won't solve everything. Hedhehogs forage for food in the dark and sometimes they are not able to asses where are they going. Or at least leave some floating object in the water so the hedgehog (or a kitten) can board it and wait for the rescue. Do you remember how in the Titanic movie they used floating unhinged doors? :-)
Richard Vlk my dad suggested the same!! Good idea!
Just found your vlogs and I am addicted. I am from Slovakia but I live in Canada. My son actually moved to Prague and I have been visiting him every year - until Covid. Hope to visit again soon ! I love your energy, positivity, your videos are very informative, interesting and fun. I can't wait for new ones to come out. And congratulations on your news, by the way, I saw your last Instagram post. All the best
Hello Eva! This comment is just so sweet! I hope your boy is enjoying Prague and that you can come soon enough!!! hahah thank you we are exited about the news and all the vlogs that it will bring
That tree is spruce:) Pine trees are next to it:) But it is pretty!
It’s gorgeous
Hi Andrea :)
Classic pantry under the stairs, like my grandma has :D Btw we call it "spíž" or "špajz" ;) And the balcony in the bathroom makes sense, you can dry towels outside and the bathroom is ventilated. And watch out for ghosts in the attic.
Well we do not have only one word like village and town or city. According to the size and importance, we recognize several terms :)
Samota - usually refers to a secluded rural human dwelling consisting of one to three houses
Osada - is a smaller rural settlement, larger than the Samota
Obec - a public corporation, ie a legal entity that is a basic unit of public administration, a territorial self-governing unit of the basic level.
Vesnice / ves / víska/on Moravia dědina - that's what you know as a village, where there are close social contacts between the individual inhabitants. However, some villages are local parts of the city, administratively attached to the city itself as districts.
Městys - is in size and meaning between the town and the village. In the past, these were settlements that were granted the right to hold weekly and livestock markets and, initially, exceptionally, annual markets.
Město - ie town, and according to its size and importance it is then Okresní město and Krajské město :)
You may have noticed that, unlike in America, Czech cities do not have rectangular streets. It is given by history. The first towns were circular, the village was only a few houses by the road.
You can also take a train from Hostivice to metro Veleslavin - the ride takes about 15 minutes.
Zlicin is closer
Or to Anděl
Yeah we tried it but from where we are to the train is far. So it takes aroun half an hour to zlicin and then another half to the center. By car is half the time. But if anyone ever needs to do that and they don’t want to Uber I guess is doable. Maybe I’ll try to do it for a video
Or directly from Hostivice to Masarykovo nádraží in the very centre - 23 minutes.
Hi Andrea you have found a beautiful looking house in a great location we shop in Hostivice (Tesco and Lidl), we live only 5km away. In Chyne there is a very nice restaurant called Pivovarsky Dvur. You did a great job showing us the house, thanks.
Oh thanks for the tip I for sure will love to make a video about food and restaurants around the area!!
Hostivice has been a town since 1978 :-) (In the Czech Republic, it is clear (by law) which "settlement unit" is a village and which is a town.) There is still the term "městys" (used again since 2006), something between a town and a village - for municipalities that are small but somewhat important for their region. p.s. Your house is lovely :-)
Oh I didn’t know that!! Cool then! Anyway I was already calling it a town. For me a village sounds medieval 😂 I’ve been in villages in CZ and they are lovely but very different from hostivice for sure
@@ArepasforDinner Hostivice has almost nine thousand inhabitants. It is too big to be a village :-) The largest village in the Czech Republic is Petrovice u Karviné (5 thousand inhabitants). But until 2015 it was Jesenice near Prague. Just for fun: The promotion of the village to a town is approved by the government. The promotion is regulated by law, which stipulates that a municipality with at least three thousand inhabitants can become a town. However, the municipality must also meet other criteria regulated by government regulations.
@@kristynaberankova2703 Oh wow thanks for sharing the info I had no idea... Actually where I come from any place with more than 2.000 ppl is automatically a town I can't imagine a 5K village!!
Amazing house, Andrea. Congratulations to you & Jan! Totally in love with the back yard!! Would put a fire pit there myself, but otherwise it's absolutely perfect :)
We are putting a fire pit!!!! Now when it starts cooling and once we get off so many expenses!!! 💜💜💜🤗 thanks for watching!!!
i live in this same exact type of neighbourhood. and then you said you live in hostivice, well so do i! no wonder it all seemed so familiar to me
Nice řadovka :-) The bathroom seems a little bit unusual, for me it looks more like former room made into bathroom with original bathroom somewhere else. But still a nice house in general.
The upstairs bathrooms looks a lot like the old houses bathroom to me the shape is also different from what I was used to
To your linguistical problem, in czech you can use word městys which is something between small town and village. And when it comes to different words for town and city, town is normally město and city is velkoměsto. ☺️
Beautiful house btw! ♥️
I’ll stay with male mesto? A village is a house settlement of up to 2.0000 habitants. And since this area is so near to Prague and has 4 times that amount should be called suburb or satellite city but town will do 😋🤗
On this part of the planet the "Modern" way heating is way less effective than the "old style" one. Only reason to have a floor heating is an aesthetic reason here in the most cases.
Mmmm I had no idea. How is that so? We always understand is a matter of money (as usual) wall heaters are cheaper. But floor heaters are the most effective
🙋♀️ Here is one ,from Venezuela, sharing your happiness ,loving the house,the garden , loving it all !
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So Happy for you guys. Looks like you’ve been enjoying the pool. You’re so tan!!!
Every day!!! I think today is the last day possible for the pool since tomorrow goes down to 15 I believe but honestly I discovered the tanner I get the less makeup I need and I’m all for that 😂
sopor michael lol! I hope but I guess is wishful thinking?! 😂
Lovely house, Andrea. Very happy for you! Congrats❤️🌹
Thank you Dagmar!!!!
Such a lovely home, thank you for sharing :)
Thank you for watching!!! 💜💜
Andrea, me pasa lo mismo con ese tipo de escalera hahaahhahahahahhahahahahahahha:-) Hermosa tu casa te felicito, muchas gracias por permitirme entrar. Mi video favorito de los viernes, como siempre excelente ...
Gracias Lyna tan linda!! Hoy iba a publicar otro pero no tuve tiempo!
Hi Andrea.. First of all congratulation to the videos, it's very nice and show your personality... What would be the average rent price(including utilities) for similar house in this area? I'm living in PRG but I would love to move to a house as soon as my czech level improve =).. All the best!!
Baby? And soon? That will be awesome 👏🏻
We only hope!
Ive watched many of your videos and I like them very much, keep going :-)
Oh thank you Eva!! I'm so happy you are enjoying them
Looks amazing! So happy for you
So pretty. Thanks for uploading 😍
I had literally THE SAME bathroom, 2005 luxury 😍🤣 I was happiest person on earth when I finally made redecoration!
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Your home is lovely. Of course my favorite place is your garden and pool.
Yessss!!!! A great reason to want summer to come. Usually I’m a winter girl. But anyway we will be buying a fire pit for winter to enjoy the outside 💜💜💜 thanks for watching
Lovely house really, as well as you are :) I wish you the best to the future of you both. :)
This is such a beautiful house. Happy living
Beautiful house! I have seen your previous video about not buying house in Czech. But...if you count, it depends how much you (wasted) paid by rent this. This house can be monthly rented by 35-40K czech crowns? Maybe more. I don't know if services (elecricity, gas etc) are included or not, but a year is about 500K...if you will be there for 4 years, it's 2M. And if you are able to save this money....you can take loan or maybe buy own house and pay monthly only 6K for the rest of your life (of course plus a loan). I don't know. Paying rent for something which is not yours seems to me...strange.
A house like this is 650,000 USD the rent is not more than 2.000 with a loan on 30 years and the interest the house is gonna end up being 1.000.000 dollars. So only if we would stay more than 15 years makes sense. And only if the market doesn’t change and as per the previous video we see that the market is very manipulated now with lack of offer. That won’t last for ever. So if the market would go back to normal in the next 30 years you still have to pay a million dollars for a house that’s worth maybe 1/3. That’s the main issue. And if there is a crisis (happens to the best countries) and you can’t pay your mortgage you need to sell cause you owe the bank 1.000.000 but if you can sell for 300.000 you will still owe 700.000 without having the house 😐. To put it simpler. A family that makes around 5.000 a month (almost nobody makes that here) shouldn’t buy a property that exceeds 300.000 USD cause otherwise sooner or later they will lose the house
@@ArepasforDinner House like this is $650K?! Well, so then I got it. It's overprized like sh!@t :D
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE your hous and those cabinets look so cool😍😍 good for a Fiesta 😂
It’s awesome we are so happy with it!!! 😂
you could make a top style with laundry and dryer machine.~~
Hostivice! I am relocating from London to Hostivice in 2 months !!!
No way really?! Come say hi when you do!! It’s such a cool place
Absolutely will do 😃
12:54 actually not a pine, but spruce
Yeiii! Nuevo video 🙌🏻
ileana torres sorry for the delay!!! Was such a struggle to upload this one 😂
Arepas for Dinner the wait was worth it, such a great video! 👌
I would not put a freezer into a closet for our own safety.
Why wouldn’t you if it’s a closet that’s always open! In fact we removed the mirror door that covered the freezer space and it’s a XXIst century freezer 😂😂😂
@@ArepasforDinner Because of the back heating. But if you removed the door...
Drakulka CZ it doesn’t have a back heating in this model the machine is under it. Don’t worry this is an engineer’s house 🏡🤗
this is bullshit! freezer or fridge doesn't produce so much heat. many people, me including, have fridge inside kitchen unit. some tv or gaming pc produces more heat imho. and mostly it just could decreased effectivity of fridge but there is no danger at all. actually this room should be quite cool during summer so much likely it will be opposite case...
If you don't mind...how much is the rental cost for such a property
Nice house, congrats from Gainesville 😁 at least you are close to the airport and my favorite supermarket Globus in Zličín.
Yessss 10 mins to the airport and ikea Globus etc are on our side 💜💜💜 cheers!!
@@ArepasforDinner We will be living on the other side of the airport, also 10 to airport , 15 to Globus.
Nicole Hoy that’s always a good location!!!
Ahoj všichni, také bydlím v Praze ale umím dobře i anglicky asi mě tady skoro nikdo nebude rozumnět ale nevadí.A chtěla bych se zeptat v jaké části Prahy bydlíš? Možná jsem to na videu nepostřehla 😶.Moc ráda cestuji a ráda se dívám na videa buď na UA-cam nebo na Tiktok nebo Snapchat asi znáte. Jestli tady ještě někdo mluví česky něco hezkého mi napište.☺️Děkuji všem 💕
Hi Anna I’m in Hostivice. No longer in Prague! But close enough 💜💜
Ok Thank you
Looks like an early 2000s style house, am I right?
Spot on!! It’s from the 2.000
Yeah, that was officially ready to be used since 5th of April 2004... 😊 Andrea - never ever disclose your location, I would suggest. Czech “vesnice”, “mestys”, “obec” and even so called “sattelites” about historical little town centeres and so, they are so tiny that find your exact house was a matter of minutes 🤓
@sopor michael wow that's really mean :D
@Jiří Lang jr To jsi frajer teď...
It's a beautiful house,and very spacious. Thanks for sharing. How much would be the rental cost for this type of house? Thank you
Hostivice? Say hello to mr. Rath on my behalf;)
btw. my guess was Libuš because there are exactly the same houses and mix of old structures (the fance on the farr side of your garden).
v hostivicích bydlí nebo bydlíval i tuším jan železný, šebrle a tuším ještě jeden desetibojař. dvořák nebo změlík. mimo jiné. je to docela "lepší" čtvrť. jinak rath je rád, že je rád (rath?), není ještě někde ve výkonu trestu? :-)
My friend lives in Hostivice and everytime we visit, we are annoyed by the plane noise. I wouldn't be able to live there.
What?! Are you crazy! Planes land and take off the other way unless there’s a wind change. I’m also a pilot so that’s something I enjoy if I hear. If I’m lucky I hear 1/2 of the small pipers a day
I love the Florida license plate !
Always representing!!! 💯💯
¿Entiendo bien que te mudaste de Butovice a Hostivice? Vivo y trabajo cerca de ambos :-)
Quizas nos encontremos cuando camines y te pediré practicar mi español 😊.
¡Disfruta!
Another restaurant to try is U Smrku in Jenec
What about hitting system?? How do you feel living here in terrible cold??
We have gas heaters and works amazingly good for us! I was a bit scared at first that it might be too cold in winter but it wasn't the case! We never even turned on the upstairs heaters! The house is very warm... So much that we are actually adding a/c units for summer cause we believe that might be a bigger issue
Your lingvistic problem is very Pragueish.
1. Prague people say "village" to everything outside Prague, some maybe except regional capitals.
2. All of these satellites around Prague like Hostivice, Úvaly, Roztoky, Průhonice used to be villages. Even I (30y) remember those much smaller then they actually are today. For Prague people they are villages because they saw them 15 years ago and didn't see how they grew up
Mmmm probably. That makes sense!! I just encounter more than one person laughing at us (not in a completely mean way) cause we now live in a village!.. And I’m here like... Noooo... before we lived in a tiny apartment now we live in a big house that’s the only change I feel but at the same time I grew up in a place like this. Inside a city but when you live in a house you do house life that is more like a town life than a city life. And also funny enough we live in a townhouse not a house. (Cause is an horizontal building haha) so if you live in a townhouse you live in a town 😂 haha sorry for the long nonsense reply
@@ArepasforDinner I like towns more than Prague. It is great to have most of your needs in walkable distance. That's what people from Prague doesn't understand. For them is metro their feet. I understand, I lived in Madrid :D
Fafovire room in the house - kitchen..... oh good girl.... nice house
I’m such a foodie !!!!
great video and beautiful house█████████████████████ Want to live in czechia☻☻☻☻☻
@Elizeu Santos ?? no it's like typical middle class house
40k a month Is a lot, but it's cuz of the location. U can find just as beautiful, bigger houses with bigger garden all over Czechia - it Is how middle And lower class live in the villages And small towns. Obviously, everything near Prague Is expensive cuz of the housing bubble now.
I think it's maloměsto, not vesnice.
We recently purchased a flat in Repy so we will be close to you haha. I have never been living so close to the airport and Im very curious how noisy it will be especially when pandemic is over and plane will be landing/taking off like every 5 minutes. I hope airport will stick to using the main runway cos the other one seems to be in our trajectory :D
Wondering what will be your experience. Probably we should start saving on new headphones or noise cancelling windows :D
They generally use the main one. We asked our friends around the area and we were told we are lucky to hear 2/3 planes a day! I honestly enjoy it. I used to be a pilot and my daddy is a pilot so that’s a sound that can’t bother me 💜💜
@@ArepasforDinner so next video is you flying above Prague
I wish... Maybe in February you’ll be surprise
Wait wait wait wait. Hold the phone. The chairs at the breakfast bar are way too short. Does that shelf swivel down? Otherwise you’re going to be eating food that’s above your head.
I know right this kitchen is so off standard... The counter top is 1m instead of 1.10 but yet the breakfast counter is like way too high... Like 8cm higher than it should XD we are still struggling cause no chair is that tall hahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
Congratulations on your new house, I am sure you will make it into a great home where you will create a lot of happy memories. Wishing you the best!
A dónde vas a poner tu hamaca? Me encanta verla en tus videos desde Butovice :).
En el estudio creo!!
thats very nice house to live in
I just looked it up, similar houses in that town run $700-$800k USD to buy. That's wild, that's California suburb prices. Wow!
Beautiful place! Thanks for the video and all of the info.
Exactly!! That’s why I am 100% pro renting right now. For this house to be a buyable house the rent should be aroun $5k a month or the price of the house be no more than $200k
Yeah, thats so over priced...
@@ArepasforDinner I see. Quite same big house for rent for 22500czk. That's like 3+1 in Dejvice. Cool for family
Can you share with us a general price of what a house like that would rent for in today's market? Thanks!
I’ve seen them between 20.000 all the way to 40.000 depending where you want them. If inside Prague more like 50.000
Rent of such house would be very expensive, minimaly 30 000 CZK, maybe 40 or 50 as Andrea said, but most of people don't have rented houses, they have hypotec for that and it will be their after something like 30 years.
@@Pidalin Thank you for the response. I was an English teacher in Prague almost 30 years ago (Jan. 1991) and, as you know, things have changed dramatically. I would love to return there, possibly to retire, if we ever get any sense of normalcy back in the world.
@@guitinwidit PS: That rent was meant monthly. Normal flats with 3 rooms and kitchen in Prague are for 17 or 20 000 CZK, if you want to be in downtown than it can be even much more, so people need mosty minimaly 2 people in family who are working, it can't be paid from one Czech salary if you are not manager or something like that. Today you will have something like 25 - 30 thousands netto on qualified position and around 20 thousands netto on less qualified or unqualified position.
In today Czechia there is no big difference between regions or cities like in other countries (except some places where is no work), it's not like you will have minimal salary on village and automaticaly good salary in Prague. Ofcourse rent of flat in Prague is more expensive, but it's not cheap even in small cities, I would say difference is maybe 20% in rents and salaries, so that's good advantage of living in Czech Republic, in some countries you have no chance move to capital city because you just can't afford that.
@@Pidalin Thank you for the detailed reply. So I guess even if I wanted to live outside the city in a place like Kladno the rent out there wouldn't be much cheaper. I feel like the global economy right now is a big bubble waiting to burst. I wonder, too, about the other forces of corruption (politicians and mafias) that are still pulling the strings on things. I am sooo disgusted with the situation in the U.S. but I also realize there is no utopia
Beautiful house.....)
Lovely house and I’m happy for you but don’t understand why didn’t you decide to buy your own house when you are paying A LOT of money anyway for renting this house? Would make so much more financial sense! X
Even after paying 15 years of rent that wouldn’t even cover the interest on a house like this. Plus we would have to put 70.000 usd out of pocket upfront and the monthly payments would be higher than the rent in a overly inflated market if we would move in 15 years and the market would be back to normal we would still need to pay the bank 700.000 usd for a house that’s worth 200.0000 so we owe the bank 500K and we don’t have anything. Right now with our savings we are having several different investments that produce us over 1.000 usd a month instead of putting that in an overpriced property. Watch my video about real estate market in the Czech Republic 💜💜💜
Arepas for Dinner thank you for detailed answer. Wow! Maybe worth considering a move further away from Prague? We live happily in the UK in a 4 bed house in the centre of England. We could never in a million years afford living anywhere near London due to prices.
Anyway, good luck with everything, really enjoy your videos from a perspective of a Czech person living abroad watching a foreigner making videos about life in Czech 👍 xx
Marketa Bolton yes we tried to move a bit away from Prague!.. In West Palm Beach specially 😂 but we couldn’t stay there. No no kidding Czech Republic is a “Central European country” that was on the east side of the iron country. The moment you move away from Prague you enter into another curtain . Jobs pay 1/4 of what they pay in Prague. Nobody speaks English there’s no malls or big chain stores. Is like traveling in time tbh. Nothing to do with a town in UK or US
Arepas for Dinner that’s not correct at all, you are totally misguided on this information.
Of course there are parts of Czech that would perhaps match your description but there are many more where the standard of life is just as good as in Prague. I come from Brno, second largest city in Czech and I visited only this summer and I can assure you, that you don’t feel there like behind iron curtain and people do speak English. Well, the younger generation does.
And pleeenty of excellent shopping opportunities. Honestly, I’m shocked by this answer and your opinion.
Marketa Bolton unfortunately I literally took the word of a couple of Czech friends that are hanging here. They are answering the questions for me tonight. I wouldn’t know
Does everything have to be so perfect?
Nice house tour. Veo que tienes en exhibición una matrícula de auto del Estado de la Florida. :-D
Siiiii era nuestra!! De cuando vivimos allá
Maybe a weird question but.. do you maybe know the brand of your kitchen furniture? :D is there any stickers or writing on it? I happen to have the same set in my rented flat I've been looking for few pieces that would match the set 😂
sakra not weird at all we tried to find the same with no luck! Nothing inside no stickers or anything
sopor michael that’s not the kitchen furniture 😂
Good 👏👏👏 excellent
Such a lovely house 💞. Question why don't you drink alcohol?
I’ve being drinking on and off for the past year due to infertility issues :( I might do a video about that soon
I see that's completely understandable. I always wonder why ppl don't drink and find it fascinating in a good way. Thanks for your vids 💙
love your videos❤️. Can I know your last apartment rent please
Yes the one in nove Butovice was 24.000 czk :)
@@ArepasforDinner thank you 😊
I lived in Prague for 6 years studied at charles university. I never was embraced by czech ppl i noticed they seemed quite racist. I just wish I experienced what you experienced. But they wouldnt give me a chance.
Oh I’m so sorry that happened to you!! They are not racist. What so ever. But they don’t live in that politically correct world either. I found a million times more racism in Spain
interesting I've just watched video where this was discussed by black man from Domican republic and he said that he's never experience racism in Czechia and he's been living here for 9 months unlike one time he encounter this in his home country by a tourist.
This video:
ua-cam.com/video/HNCmQeanlwE/v-deo.html
6AY 7023 HAH I got it anyway ;)
You live in město, not a village, even if it is a smaller město.
Ok I thought mesto was city?!
@@ArepasforDinner It is, but afaik Hostivice is considered a city, albeit a small one.
Thanks to magic of Czech diminutives you can use městečko (little city) :)
People dry their clothes just on the air
Good for them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
Lol i think i am weird because i do that still in me 28...good to see do it others lol 21:23
In this situation better quick do it ! Slower=thinking=fear...lol
Exactly!!! You saw my speed on going down those stairs?! 😂😂😂
wtf...where you got money for it?
We are renting not buying!! 🤗